WITI is reporting the 14 month old Town of Walworth boy attacked by pit bulls has now died. RIP

Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections by Greg Tobin

Given current events, I just finished reading "Selecting the Pope: Uncovering the Mysteries of Papal Elections" by Greg Tobin. I found the portions of the book related to the actual selection process fascinating, but too much of the book is taken up by a shorthand history of the papacy and Tobin's own {liberal Catholic} opinions on where the Church is headed.

Hugo Chavez

Hugo Chavez is dead at 58. The news is 58 years too late for the good of the Western Hemisphere, but I'll take it anyway.

 

Pasta shells stuffed with ricotta, italian sausage and spinach for dinner tonight. Yum - best of all the kids might reject them, leaving more for me. In the meantime, while we were stuffing them I ate some of the mixture, only to be mildly annoyed when Lisa told me she'd added a raw egg to the mix for cohesion. 

"You let me eat raw egg?" I whined. 

"Pulease, you eat cookie dough all the time," she said.  

"That's different," I said, "God blesses cookie dough and keeps it safe. Known fact, Lisa. KNOWN FACT"

“ . . . and to my delight two Rex Stouts which I don’t think I’ve read . . . . He writes so urbanely that after a diet of ordinary thriller writers he cuts the palate with a nice astringency, a neat pungency.”

-- from The Richard Burton Diaries

My Friend Fred Bryan

 

 30 years ago today, February 28, 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H aired.

YaYa and Junie

 

Hot dog! In light of the current blizzard, Marquette canceled Smiley's speech therapy session, saving me a trip across town. Whew!

Silver Linings Playbook

 Watched Silver Linings Playbook. Great cast, strong story, a little rom-com-y in the last half hour. Grade A

Amazing Race

 We just finished watching Season 12 of the Amazing Race! Congrats (5 years later) to TK and Rachel on their win! What a great team, and what a special couple. I hope they're still together.

C Everett Koop

 RIP C Everett Koop, the famous bearded Surgeon General 

 Big congrats to Jennifer Lawrence (best actress) and Argo for Best Picture!

Fell today - again. On the back porch - again. Landed on my right hip - again. The pain and swelling - doubled. This winter is so mild, but I'm stumbling around like a drunk with blinders on. Ridonculous

 Beautiful night and morning w/ my baby.

Melting Pot was awesome, great first time, will go again! - Lisa

Bad News for the Yanks

Yankee Curtis Granderson is out 10 weeks with fractured forearm suffered on a HBP. Damn.

And a court has ruled that the New York Yankees are "The Evil Empire" - at least when it comes to using that phrase in merchandising. Quoting the Wall Street Journal "The panel of judges sided with the Yankees, ruling that the Yankees are strongly associated with the phrase. Allowing anyone else to use the phrase exclusively would likely cause confusion, ruled the judges." You go boyz!

Free

 I have a 50" Toshiba flat-screen projection TV that I'm looking to part with; I offered it to my parents but they inexplicably turned it down. It's too big and passe for most modern living rooms, but it's a fully working HD capable TV that would be perfect for a den or a basement rec room (won't fit down our stairs). Years ago one of the kids damaged one of the built in speakers, so we hard-wired a much better pair of speakers to it, and I'll include those too. If you're interested, comment here. Thanks!

As I just tweeted (you *do* follow me on Twitter, dontcha?) we're about to step out for our 18th anniversary. It - well Feb 22nd - is the anniversary of the day we met. I'm not one of the hippie-dippie posers who demean marriage as a mere 'slip of paper', but I do value this date more than that of our wedding. There is faint difference between life on Oct 25th, '96 and all the days that followed it; but there is no end to the difference that Feb 22nd 1995 made in my life. Thanks for putting up with me Lisa

My Thoughts - The Oscars

I'm getting really sick of the Oscar hype. I love movies (obviously) and I adore the Oscars, but in the end it's just a bunch of pretty millionaires arguing over which pretty millionaire gets a gold statue for doing the job they're paid to do. It's not worth as much ink as it generates.

Truth right There

 

 The Hilton has announced they are closing their Paradise Landing waterpark 

Tomorrow will be 18 years to the day that I met my soul mate.

A few months after that I will have been with him longer then being alive, lol. Yikes. Time flies. Hope everyone has or finds their lifelong love! I had to post this today, just to beat him to the punch...ha! I got to it first Danny! Also: in person job interview tomorrow morning, wish me luck...phone interview was intense! - Lisa

So Far

 So far in 2013: 9 books, 47 movies. I'm behind the curve :(

Rise of the Guardians

 Rise of the Guardians was OK, but a little on the dark side for an animated movie. Lauren insisted on sitting on my lap, and once tracked me down when I wandered away. From an adult perspective I thought it was ho-hum, just another variation on the tired super hero them, but props to the bad guy: the Boogeyman was wickedly done.